Loneliness In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Slim gives one of his puppies to Lennie to make him happy and helps Lennie after he crushed Curley’s hand. Slim helps Lennie in order to not get him in trouble and tells Curley what to do with his hand “I think you get your han' caught in a machine. If you don’t tell nobody what happened, we ain’t going to” (P. 64). Slim tells a white lie to avoid Lennie getting in trouble. Also, Slim shows his compassion and understanding of George’s pain at the end of the story when George killed Lennie. Slim is the only person that understand George’s lie and says “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me” (P. 107). Slim understand why George has to kill Lennie himself and his feeling. Slim’s action demonstrates that he is a hero; trying to help and be kind to

At the end of Of Mice and Men, George has to make the grim decision to shoot Lennie in the back of the head before the other men kill him because Lennie accidently killed the bosses son, Curley’s, wife. “George said softly, ‘I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would. “(Steinbeck 94). This shows that George has always hoped that he and Lennie would have a farm and live their life together, but when he sees that cannot happen, he becomes very depressed. This makes him learn the self-knowledge that without Lennie, he is the man that he has always said he was not. With this thought, he knows he has surrendered his dreams, and they cannot be sustained without Lennie. This reveals he has found the impossibility of living the American dream despite hard work and that dreams are no place in a harsh, unloving world. As well, in the end, Slim is the only man that can see that George has gone through the terrible loss of his best friend. This event shows George the real need for friendship in the world, which he needed to distinguish himself from other

Slim insults Lennie in front of George. He replies, “‘He ain’t no cuckoo’, said George. ‘He’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy. I ain’t so bright neither, or I would be buckin’ barley for my fifty and found’” (39). George feels the need to defend and protect Lennie, even when Lennie is not around. George wants to persuade people into thinking that Lennie is a normal farm worker. George finds a way to convince people Lennie is normal, by comparing his own work on the farm to Lennie’s work. In later chapters, Curley picks a fight with Lennie. George encourages Lennie to fight Curley. After the fight, Lennie is worried about if he will be fired and what George thinks. Lennie looks for comfort in George, he replies, “You don’t need to be scairt no more. You done jus’ what I tol’ you to” (65). George pressures Lennie to fight Curley. At the beginning of the fight, Lennie does not want to hurt Curly. Lennie looks up to George for guidance and protection. This trait of Lennie’s allows George to make all of Lennie's decisions. This event is the turning point in George’s feelings towards

George saved Lennie by shooting him with a gun in the back of the head. It was fast and painless, but Curley had other plans for Lennie, “We oughtta let ‘im get away. You don’t know that Curley. Curley gont’ta wanta get him lynched. Curley’ll get ‘im killed”( Steinbeck 94). Candy knows that Curely will lynch Lennie if he finds him. George knew he had to find Lennie before Curley. George decided to shoot Lennie because he knew Lennie would have either been locked up in jail his entire life, or have been beaten up and lynched by Curley. After George shoots Lennie, Slim reassures George that he did the right thing, “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda”(Steinbeck 107). George needed Slim to let him know that it was the right thing to do. Slim gave George closure, because George was in awe. George realized he did the right thing after he followed Slim out of the

At this point in time George is still acting as if everything is fine and that their friendship is as strong as ever. George having the gun tries to shoot Lennie many times before he actually does so, “George raised the gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the round again.” He cannot bring himself to do it as they’ve been friends for so long. Loneliness rules the end of the novel as George had been a character with support throughout the novel but now he has murdered Lennie and therefore he doesn’t have someone he can properly trust. When the workers find George they assume that he got the gun off Lennie and shot him in self-defense so only Slim really knows what has happened. Slim is the only one that really understands the friendship between George and Lennie and this is significant at the novels ending, “Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes.”

     Many conflicts start to pull George and Lennie apart throughout the whole book. George gets tired of dealing with all the bad thing Lennie does, therefore he ends up killing his best friend as much as he did not want to. When Lennie killed Curley’s wife George knew it was over so George decided to put a end to his missery before someone else killed him. George is forced to shoot Lennie in the back of the head because of the incident that occured. The men do not understand why a best friend would kill another best friend so they all leave in confusion. The only person who understands is Slim. Slim knows what George goes through and understands why he did it. Friendship has to end somewhere no matter how deep the friendship is.

4. George is describing to Slim the predominantly negative effects he’s observed of being a “lone wolf” in this field of work. He explains how keeping Lennie around saves him from getting angry and fighting and shutting everyone out. The two have bonded together and both rely on the other’s companionship as well as the hope of a brighter future where they own a stake of land together.

He has killed it by taking care of it .he is lamenting over the misfortune. Curley's wife comes to the horse barn and discussion with Lennie. As they talk, she requests he touch her hair. She afraid when she feels Lennie's solid hands. When she raises her voice to him, Lennie covers her mouth. All the while, he unintentionally breaks her neck then he leaves the farm. At the point when the farm hands discover that Curley's wife has been killed, Driven by a furious Curley, they all go out to hunt down Lennie. They plan to killed him in retribution , George tolerantly killed his friend Listening to the gunfire, the searchers join by the pool. Just Slim comprehends the real motivation behind George's deed

Every ranch they go to, Lennie manages to mess something up, even though he doesn’t mean to do it. He isn’t able to control his actions. That being said, George knows that the sooner he can end this, the sooner he can go on to live a normal life. Whether that’s what George wants or not, he knows that this is what’s best for Lennie. Just like Slim tells George after Lennie kills Curley’s wife, “An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him and put him in a cage. That ain’t no good, George” (Steinbeck 97). When Slim says something, you know it’s right, so when George hears Slim say this, he knows what he has to do. He isn’t doing a bad thing, he’s doing what’s best for

Lennie’s is described as being soft and not very tough (6).And is described by slim as a very attentive and straight forward guy as “He ain’t mean, I can tell a mean guy a mile off”(42) And witch these by this quote of the book “George gonna wish he was alone an’ not have me botherin’ him’’ (100). This truly confirms lennies inner guilt and turmoil about bothering George and holding him back. And because of these problems with his confidence and his constant insecurities when it comes to his friendship with george and

He does this to make sure that George is safe. A second positive trait that Lennie has is that he is strong. On page 37 slim says “There ain't nobody can keep up with him. God awmighty I never seen such a strong guy.” This shows how strong Lennie is and how much work he can get done because of his strength.

some may argue George shouldn’t have shot him since they were companions. In chapter three slim and George talk about how Lennie is traveling around with George. Slim says, ‘“funny how you an’ him string along together”’(steinbeck 39) to George. Slim thinks Lennie and George's Friendship is unique. since most most migrants during the time period 1940's they usually traveled alone. From always traveling together George and Lennie have Built up a strong bond. However, Lennie had to die down because he was destructive. In chapter three Curley and Lennie have a heated conflict. Curley says to Lennie “‘Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-b is gonna laugh at me”’ (Steinbeck 62). Lennie after being hit over and over again, lennie grabs Curley’s hand and Breaks

To start off, with Lennie’ death, George had less responsibility. In Chapter three, George tells Slim about experiences when Lennie almost drowned, and almost received consequences by touching a dress. He states, "'He damn near drowned before we could get him... I ain't done nothing like that no more'" (Steinbeck 40).

Blood welled from his nose”(Steinbeck 100). Often times people will be cruel in their lack of caring for others. Carlson sees nothing wrong with having Lennie killed after he kills Curley’s wife by accident, and even wondered why George and Slim are shaken up afterwards,”Slim said, “You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. Come on with me.”

George confides to Slim about his past due to Slim’s overall demeanor and his his acts of welcoming and of praise.T This is the first appearance of Slim in the book, and the image that sticks to George. Through further interaction, Slim earns George's trust with his authority among the others on the ranch. This quote shows how Slim praises Lennie for his hard work. George sees this is as a sign of welcome for both himself and Lennie, causing George to further entrust Slim. In conclusion, Slim’s appearance, authority and appreciation of Lennie’s work results in George revealing aspects of his past to Slim.